skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also the 38 TOPS figure is kind of odd. Intel had already shown laptop CPUs with 45 TOPS NPU[1] though it hasn't shipped, and Windows 12 is rumored to require 40 TOPS. If I'm doing math right, (int)38 falls short of both.

1: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-says-l...
Hah! That "Cool Japan" thing! I remember some (lesser known) people to advertise for it. Dunno, it (cool japan) came to a halt in 2020 and never took off again afterwards.
It is pretty simple to set routing like that on Linux.
> It’s become “grind leetcode” which is clearly a failure mode.

I have no insider knowledge, but I always wondered if those kinds of cultures had a hazing / blind-leading-the-blind aspect to them. I.e. the people who got hired were the ones who jumped through some arbitrary hoops, so they doubled down on those hoops being the right hoops to choose the best candidates.
> Something like 3% of all astronauts have died 'on the job' making it likely the single most dangerous profession in existence.

Wait till you hear about a truly deadly job: president of the USA. 8 of the 46 presidents have died while in office, i.e., over 17%.
The ways every other field on earth interviews people? Do Surgeons need to perform mock surgeries before they are hired? Do Accountants need to complete a test audit? Do Lawyers perform a mock trial?
I imagine having a great PR magically show up that used Blade had a lot to do with it.
Blender can't do CAD. At least it can't do what you would want to do in a CAD program.

The most important difference is that Blender operates on meshes, CAD programs don't.
I get about 21 hours from mine, it's running Windows but powered off.
I'm not sure determinism alone is sufficient for proper attribution.

This presumes "chunks" are the source. But it's not easy to identify the propositions that form the source of some knowledge. In the best case, you are looking for an association and find it in a sentence you've semantically parsed, but that's rarely the case, particularly for medical histories.

That said, deterministic accuracy might not matter if you can provide enough context, particularly for further exploration. But that's not really "chunks".

So it's unclear to me that tracing probability clouds back to chunks of text will work better than semantic search.
The value a dedicated distro provides here is that you don’t have to do the legwork to research and find the best tools.

As power users we may want to do that ourselves, but a lot of people place value in having that curation done for them.
Whenever I see things like this I think it's so cool, but it's always followed by this weird feeling that lasts a few hours where all I can think about is, "What have we done?" Why does destruction come to easy to us? Why has it always been a prioirty?
Why not both? If you constrain area, you only have one dimension to expand in to maintain density: height.

Not that I have anything against high rises, but they aren’t suitable for every person or geography.
GFA Basic on the Atari ST was great. Had code folding and autocomplete/intelligent syntax before most. Compact two-line menu at the top listing the currently-relevant keybindings.

WordStar and WordPerfect both were also fantastic things from that era that took advantage of the terminal environment.

Also, many IBM 3270 "green screen" apps in banks, stores, airlines, etc. were actually extremely well thought through. In the 90s they would get maligned and replaced with "better" Windows client-server GUIs, but usually the GUI was in the end inferior in terms of workflow and reliability.

When I was a minimum wage employee at Canadian Tire early 90s, the green-screen terminal-based inventory system was odd and unorthodox but actually very quick to work with and with decent design.
I'm holding out on that one until I see it work. AI voices have certainly reached the point where I don't mind listening to them for a good period of time, and they can match the basic contours of someone's voice, but at the moment they are still missing precisely the fine details a game needs from a voice actor. And I don't know if this is just a matter of a few last tweaks or if it's a case of the last 10% taking 90% of the work. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that I'm waiting until I see it before I declare that it's here.

Personally I've nearly entirely bowed out of AAA gaming. The harder they push the graphics the more everything else ends up trashed. It isn't even a lack of effort per se. It's just that if literally everything has to have pristine animations and perfect voice acting and physics-based interactions with its environments, you get less than when all you needed was a 5 frame pixel animation and a funny sound effect for some particular interaction. AI can only cut into the problem there but not solve it until it is essentially not only human-capable, but human-capable in realtime, which is literally getting to holodeck levels of computation.
Framework (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_(office_suite)) was amazing.

It has been converted to be a Windows app and still is for sale, it seems doesn’t try hard to sell stuff (“For pricing information call or email us”), but its site (https://framework.com/) and doesn’t do the product justice, to be kind.

I couldn’t find a good demo either. https://youtu.be/RKR42Gmrydo?si=ILGJFiY33cFmcZ-o will have to do, but doesn’t show at all how easy it was to write small programs manipulating frames.
Apple: Redesigned Magic Keyboard for New iPad Pro Starting at $299
It would be interesting to federate trail condition information, since that's the true value-add of a service like AllTrails.
What about counties that had "significant numbers of minorities"?

I'm just saying, is it really as simple as "Use county borders" and you're done?
> rediscovered reading

Any tips? I didn't, somehow. After leaving high school, then university, my brain went into full on "be productive all the time" mode. My brain somehow doesn't think reading is a good use of my time, so I've settled for audiobooks when falling asleep or on long drives.

The last book I was able to devour and actually enjoyed was the Harry Potter series, which ended just before I went to university.
Linux's `make menuconfig` [0] and GDB's TUI interface [1] are the first ones that come to mind. Both are very powerful once you get to know them a bit, and are still valuable tools today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menuconfig

[1] https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/TUI.h...
That looks like a much later system.

I'm surprised that "pop-up menu" was a part of this particular interaction scenario. But much of the rest of the UI looks more like what I would've guessed.
“has left”

Nice they finally fire the guy after years of complaints

This article says already >25 by 2020

https://www.businessinsider.com/carta-startup-discrimination...
> Microsoft/HP/Dell/Lenovo Arm laptops with M3-competitive performance are launching soon, with mainline Linux support.

I have been seeking someone who’ll be willing to put money on such a claim. I’ll bet the other way. Perchance you’re the person I seek, if you truly believe this?
> Take close note of their captured territory - this is the buffer zone that they think they need, whether you agree or not, to safeguard themselves from NATO forces they do not trust one bit.

Take a close look of any map of Europe, please. Russian forces have been redeployed from the actual border with NATO into Ukraine, literally a thousand kilometers away from the closest NATO country. Defenses of St Petersburg, Kaliningrad and other key locations have been gutted in favor filling gaps in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Prigozin's march to Moscow demonstrated this perfectly; the divisions (like 4th Guards) meant for the defense of Moscow had been moved into Ukraine and there was no-one to stop him, the road to Moscow was wide open. Russia can afford to have nothing but police between Tallinn and St Petersburg only if they think that NATO poses no danger to them, otherwise it would be a key direction to fortify.

> Would you tolerate it, as an American, if Russia put secret weapons-related bio-research facilities on your borders along Mexico, and if Mexico had structured its armed forces to be aligned with Russian military planners, preparing to "contain and control" the USA? I don't think so.

There is no need to contrive scenarios when far more has been tolerated for decades. Russia has nuclear missiles literally in the middle of Europe and nobody makes a fuss about it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://w... Last year they installed nuclear missiles in Belarus too, so they've put nukes as close to Europe everywhere they could. Where they can't reach by land, the use airplanes: for years, Russia has been flying nuclear bombers 50 miles off the coast of California.
I'm sure it's all subjective (e.g. I'm sure someone here even considers the original dual core Haswell more than fine without upgrade in 2024) but going from a dual core Haswell to a quad core Haswell (or even a generation or two beyond, had it been supported) as an upgrade a decade after the fact just doesn't seem worth it to me.

The RAM/SSD sure - a 2 TB consumer SSD wasn't even a possible thing to buy until a year after that laptop would have come out and you can get that for <$100 new now. It won't be the highest performing modern drive but it'll still max out the bus and be many times larger than the original drive. Swap equipment 3 years from now and that's also still a great usable drive rather than a museum piece. Upgrading to a CPU that you could have gotten around the time the laptop came out? Sure, it has twice as many cores... but it still has pretty bad multi core performance and a god awful perf/wattage ratio to be investing new money on a laptop for. It's also a bit of a dead end, in 3 years you'll now have 2 CPUs so ancient you can't really do much with them.
Also, Rust's Vec has the correct size hinting API, so we can say Vec::reserve(N) meaning that we expect to put as many as N more things into this Vec soon, or Vec::reserve_exact(X) meaning that we expect to put no more than X more things into this Vec, ever

With this distinct hint, reserve(N) preserves the amortized growth. Say we have total capacity 30, currently there are 20 items in the Vec, and Vec::reserve(20). So the advise is that the Vec may soon have up to 40 items, we should grow it. But since we weren't promised that's as big as it'll get, we grow it by doubling - to total capacity 60 items. If this is a pattern, repeatedly reserving space for 20 items and then adding them, this grows 30 -> 60 -> 120 -> 240 and so on, amortized growth as advertised - and growth is avoided when we're only "reserving" capacity we already have anyway.

Several languages, including C++ only provide the Vec::reserve_exact(X) feature, but name it reserve. Any such "reservation" is also implicitly promising there won't be further growth, so for our example it grows 30 -> 40 -> 60 -> 80 -> 100 -> 120 -> 140 ... our amortized growth strategy was destroyed and our performance will be much worse than O(1). In such a language students get taught not to use the reservation API to signal what they know and so they lose out on performance optimisations better than O(1)

I first ran into this feature because I was wondering about the over-allocation problem, and I realised this is solving a different but also important problem.
I'm not conflating them at all. They are two interdependent variables in the system. Even TFA says that 20% usage of the empty buildings would be extremely optimistic. So you're not going to be even close to solving it by focusing on just the second.
Exactly why I would expect them to make an exception for it. Unless the local laws have been changed specifically to allow for that situation, I doubt the laws started out that way though. I don't imagine the people designing building codes for residential living put a lot of thought to extremely tall buildings initially.
Here's a totally random piece of trivia: "social media" as a term was coined by the then wife of Seth Goldstein -- who founded a few different companies, Turntable.fm being the most notable -- and was originally the basis of a company he founded that was basically an ad network inside of games and apps built inside of the Facebook platform.

Seth is an interesting dude and I haven't caught up with him in awhile.
And the other guy went to cut off someone's ear.
A mentor of mine was involved with the project. One way he knew who had been aboard or not was what he referred to as "mint jelly" — I think he meant Vick's Vapo-Rub or a similar OTC preparation.

You see, many of the Soviet sailors didn't die neatly, and while the Agency crew treated what Soviet remains they were able to gather up with as much respect as they could, various bits and pieces started to rot as sections of the sub were exposed to warm air. The corpse smell was masked by the judicious use of Vick's (or something similar) under one's nostrils.
Blaming a company TODAY for marketing from the 1990s is crazy.
Well, at least crumple zones are much easier when you don't have a fat chunk of metal (engine and gearbox) competing for space.
Hey Boitto, that's great I would love to hear your ideas.

I totally get you I've been there (and kinda still am) I've had dozens of not-shipped projects, just because I wanted them to be perfect, the only thing I can say is punch the perfectionism in the face and go for it.
With the allowing of emulators, there is now an app called 'a-shell' which you can write/compile (at least) c on.. (the built in clang compiles to wasm, vim/emacs only etc).

I expect this to improve, and I've not tried to build any complex software on it (yet).
It sounds like you're talking about adult non-fiction bestsellers. I don't think that has much to do with the reading habits of nine-year-olds. There are plenty of 80-150 page books being published for this age group.
It's all fuzzy, but I'm sure I knew about the importance of whitespace in python long before I actually tried python.

Even Raymond's article which was one of the first whined about it [1]. I definitely remember reading that one and thinking I have to check out that language later.

[1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882
its just a default convenience feature from wg-quick, its not intended to be something that fits all usecases; on trusted networks split-tunneling like that makes lot of sense
AI for Attention – Seeking Feedback for YC interview
My friend Victor and I are exploring ways that AI can be used to help bolster attention and productivity. We’ve built a simple chrome extension as a proof-of-concept and would really appreciate your candid feedback. In the spirit of transparency, we have our YC interview tomorrow and have pushed this out the door to maximize our learnings (and hopefully our chances) with the available remaining time.

Privacy questions:
We send the following data to the OpenAI API (GPT3.5 Turbo): The user’s goal
- The page’s URL and headers
- The first 100 tokens on the page
- We do not send any digits or anything formatted like an email
- It does not run on a very long list of financial, healthcare, and insurance websites
- It does not run on hangouts, slack, google, zoom, and a few other websites for reasons of visual obtrusiveness.

The idea:
Our ultimate goal is to build a personalized productivity assistant that operates across all commonly used internet devices and maintains a nuanced and accurate model of your goals, behavioral patterns, and motivational preferences.

Why we are working on this:
Victor will speak for himself in the comments. I have ADHD, as do many of my friends, family, colleagues, and I suspect many of you. Medications stopped working for me years ago so I have relied on a clunky set of tools (mostly timers and blockers) to keep my focus on the right things. Those tools are based on simple rules and either get in the way at the wrong times, or are not effective enough when I really need them to be.

I’ve been wanting to build something in this space for a long time but everything started clicking when I met Victor a couple months ago. This version of the product caters more towards folks with attention challenges but the problem is much bigger, as nearly everyone we’ve spoken to has some challenges maintaining a healthy relationship with their devices (phones in particular).

I’m not sure if it matters but I should note that previously I started a fintech named Level which was acquired by Vouch in 2022.

Again, your testing and honest feedback is very much appreciated. Cheers!
I purchased a Pixel 7a for work related testing a few weeks ago. It's a nice phone and rooting was very easy. I was impressed overall.

But those damn ads they deliver as notifications! WTF. Why would they do that.

It just reaffirmed my allegiance to Apple.
Yes, that would be great. But without the ability for us to verify this who's to say they won't use the edge resources(your computer and electricity) to process data(your data) and then send the results to their data center? It would certainly save them a lot of money.
Also... In terms of writing TUIs inside emacs ala magit, etc. it couldn't hurt to go look at the similar tools inside classic Lisp machines and older emacs (zmacs, etc) variants. Or even Oberon/Lilith or Perq or other machines of that era.

Definitely, the buffer-based metaphor rocks, and that way of working with things was kind of lost outside of emacs.
If this is the future, this is where I retire. It all seems like buzzword bingo to me.
Ejabberd and Nintendo Switch NPNS (2019)
Ballard, like William Gibson, is one of those people that despite having zero technical know how, seems to intuitively understand how people interface with technology.

Crash is often seen as completely outlandish, but it's hard to see echoes of Robert Vaughan in today's culture. We watch A24's Civil War the same way that Vaughan and Ballard would watch a car crash.
Curious how much it would cost. I think parts are on the order of $150? So maybe $4-500 for official repair?

If I can hold out another year or two, would probably end up just getting a new one
>n case it is not abundantly clear by now: Apple's AI strategy is to put inference (and longer term even learning)

I'm curious: is anyone seriously using apple hardware to train Ai models at the moment? Obviously not the big players, but I imagine it might be a viable option for Ai engineers in smaller, less ambitious companies.
We need to remove the incentives to erecting those barriers by taxing land.

Otherwise property owners will rally together to declare even an ugly launderette as historic, just to inhibit supply in their area:

https://missionlocal.org/2018/06/the-strange-and-terrible-sa...

A bit of rent control wouldnt hurt either - it helps keep a lid on property values and hence keeps NIMBYism down. The average economist's salary is, of course, dependent upon them not understanding this.
See my cousin comment about Central Park Tower. Modern commercial skyscrapers seem to not have openable windows.
Good to know that it's finally seeing the light. I thought they're still in legal dispute with ARM about Nuvia's design?
This TikTok ban is mostly about being able to control the media narrative that is being broadcasted on TikTok. The other social media companies seem to be complying with US censorship guidelines. But this is not so for Tiktok which has been accused of promoting pro Hamas content.[1][2]

I’m more interested in knowing Would a Bytedance stock IPO in a US stock exchange circumvent the ownership requirements?

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[2] https://news.google.com/search?q=Tiktok%20hamas
This is called parametric design. Since CAD programs do not operate on meshes, this allows you to e.g. change the dimension on some part and have the rest adjust accordingly.

How well this works depends on the situation, if changing a parameter causes new faces to appear on the object this is usauayvwry difficult to handle, even for commercial CAD programs.
God, I love these people. I feel shameful to not have such a hacker mindset -- to do something probably useless just for the fun of it.

I love these people.
Consider an activity that requires reading. For example, my 8-year-old plays "Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom," which involves a lot of reading. She gets stuck and then Googles hints.

Remember: All children are different. I have 3 kids, and their interest level and approach to reading is very different. My oldest loved being read to starting around 6 months, and we started getting into chapter books when she was 5-6. My other two wouldn't sit still for books until around 18 months, and my almost-6-year-old doesn't have the attention span for a chapter book.
Well, first, audiobooks totally count.

Have you tried Dungeon Crawler Carl?
Here is a project I created for myself (some time ago) to help visualize the gradient as a vector field.

https://github.com/GistNoesis/VisualizeGradient

Probably best used as a support material with someone teaching along the way the right mental picture one should have.

A great exercise is to have the student (or yourself) draw this visualization with pen and paper, (both in 2d and 3d), for various functions. And you can make the connection to the usual "tangent" on the curve of a derivative.
There are some crazy 1/1.5 bit quants now. If you're curious I'll try to dig up the papers I was reading.

1.5bit can be done to existing models. The 1 bit (and less than 1 bit iirc) requires training a model from scratch.

Still, the idea that we can have giant models running in tiny amounts of RAM is not completely far fetched at this point.
Four corner apartments work great if the floor plate is small enough to divide the floor by 4 and end up with a sensible square footage. Many office buildings are just so much bigger that this would lead to massive apartments that have few interior walls. Those are not so easy to sell. That's a reason the modern residential skyscraper is typically a narrow needle, instead of being shaped like Sears tower.
> I’m baffled that so many people who sell coffee for a living, think they know a lot about it, and act like coffee snobs, don’t seem to understand what cold brew even is.

Light roasts came (back?) into style among coffee snobs a few years ago because it highlights the difference between different sources/regions/whatever. Ever since then, the former best coffee shop in my town has been exclusively producing sour, vegetal, under-extracted brews. The justified reaction to Charbucks among coffee snobs has produced an objectively worse cup of coffee.
I feel the same way. I just can't justify upgrading from my 10.5" Pro from years ago. It's got pro motion and runs most apps fine. Sure, the battery isn't great after all these years, but it's not like it's getting used long enough to notice.
But usually roads aren't even close to max capacity at night, when the shifting happens – which, I imagine, is much less stressful and time-critical than doing the whole resurfacing in a single night.